Minnesota Session Laws - 1984, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1984 

                        CHAPTER 454-S.F.No. 1622
           An act relating to peace officers; increasing the 
          compensation for dependents of peace officers killed 
          in the line of duty; amending Minnesota Statutes 1982, 
          section 352E.04. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 352E.04, is 
amended to read: 
    352E.04 [DISBURSEMENTS.] 
    Upon certification to the governor by the administrator of 
any state or governmental subdivision employing peace officers 
that a peace officer employed by that state or governmental 
subdivision within this state has been killed in the line of 
duty, leaving a spouse or one or more eligible dependents, the 
commissioner of finance shall, subject to the approval of the 
workers' compensation court of appeals, pay $50,000 $100,000 as 
follows: 
    (a) If there is no dependent child, to the spouse; 
    (b) If there is no spouse, to the dependent child or 
children in equal shares; 
    (c) If there are both a spouse and one or more dependent 
children, one-half to the spouse and one-half to the child or 
children, in equal shares; 
    (d) If there is no surviving spouse or dependent child or 
children, to the parent or parents dependent for support on the 
decedent, in equal shares; 
    (e) If there is no surviving spouse or dependent child, 
children or parent, then there shall be no payment made from the 
peace officers benefit fund.  
     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
     Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Approved April 24, 1984